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  <title>MediaGoblin 0.6.0: Lore of the Admin</title>
  <meta name="date" contents="2013-12-03 10:00" />
  <meta name="author" contents="Christopher Allan Webber" />
  <meta name="tags" contents="release, admin tools" />
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       alt="MediaGoblin 0.6.0: Lore of the Admin banner" />
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    A system administrator reflecting on her work, surrounded by
    various goblin-computer-interfaces.
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  Welcome to MediaGoblin 0.6.0, Lore of the Admin!
  This release has a lot of cool stuff in it, but we've especially
  added plenty of tools to make things better for site administrators
  and moderators.  (And sites that are easier to administrate are
  better for everyone!)
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.6.0_moderation_powers_dropdown.png"
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           alt="Dropdown menu for administrative features" /></a>
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  Site administrators and moderators have a whole new set of features
  they can make use of.  Assuming you have the right user privileges,
  you can see these tools from the top dropdown menu.
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.6.0_admin_user_panel.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.6.0_admin_user_panel-scaled.png"
           alt="User panel for administrators" /></a>
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  You can see here one of the new administrative tools that are built in,
  a user administration panel.  From here a moderator or administrator
  can take various actions, such as modifying a user's privileges.
  We've also built in new tooling so that site administrators running
  more public instances can properly moderate problematic content or
  even ban problematic users.
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.6.0_file_report.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.6.0_file_report-scaled.png"
           alt="Filing a report" /></a>
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<p>
  Speaking of which, it's now possible to submit reports on media
  which is problematic...
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.6.0_resolve_report.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.6.0_resolve_report-scaled.png"
           alt="Resolving a report!" /></a>
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  ... administrators can then view and resolve such reports appropriately.
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<p>
  Your users might also not know what's acceptable and what isn't on
  your MediaGoblin instance, and of course you want to let them know!
  As such we've included a default terms of service (which can be
  disabled or changed as needed) based on the
  <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tos/">Wordpress Terms of Service</a>.
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<p>
  A long requested feature from system administrators setting up
  custom sites is a command line upload tool.  We're happy to announce
  that this release includes such a tool!
  Check out the
  <a href="http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/v0.6.0/siteadmin/commandline-upload.html">
    command line uploading docs</a>
  for more info!
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<p>
  You may also remember that in our
  <a href="/news/mediagoblin-0.5.0-goblin-force.html">last major release</a>
  we got an authentication plugin system.  In this release a new authentication
  plugin has been added for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ldap">LDAP</a>!
  So if your organization runs an LDAP-powered single-sign-on
  solution, MediaGoblin can now integrate with it!
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<p>
  We've got some other nice features in this release too.  It's now
  possible to set upload limits per user or per uploaded file.  We've
  also upgraded our version of <a href="http://www.videojs.com/">video.js</a> that
  ships with MediaGoblin.  And more!  Check out the
  <a href="http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/v0.6.0/siteadmin/relnotes.html">release notes</a> to get the full scoop!
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<p>
  Thanks to all who participated in this release: Asheesh Laroia,
  Christopher Allan Webber, Deb Nicholson, Devan Goodwin, Josephine Bartholoma,
  Lenna Peterson, Natalie Foust-Pilcher, Rodney Ewing, and Sebastian Spaeth!
  Special thanks also to Simon Fondrie-Teitler for his awesome sysadmin assistance!
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<p>
  That's it for this release, but stay tuned... as always we're
  working hard!  (Can you believe this is our fifth major release since
  <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/we-did-it.html">last year's campaign ended</a>?
  Wow!)  We hope to make some more exciting announcements shortly!  And if
  you're thinking about getting involved in the MediaGoblin community,
  please do <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html">join us</a> in
  trying to make the Internet a better place!  Happy goblin'ing,
  everyone!
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<p>
  <i>
    <b>Update:</b>
    We also just pushed out a smallish followup release,
    <a href="http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/v0.6.1/siteadmin/relnotes.html">v0.6.1</a>.
    This release is very minor, it just fixes a couple of things with
    the default terms of service and makes it off by default so we can
    get a chance to give it more community review.  Otherwise, it's
    mostly the same release.  Happy admin'ing!
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